Part 48 (1/2)
Wednesday, October 3, 1984 Jean Michel called three or four ti that Jean Michel wasn't finished with yet, and he said, ”I want it, I want it,” and so he gave him money and took it, and I felt funny, because nobody's done that forto the party on Malcolm Forbes's boat for Iht I was late but I was early Most of the people were so old and they were all frouess it must be the richest street in the world Imelda lives on it between Fifth and Madison Lee Radziwill caotten a little too fat, though, so if I did her picture I'd want to do it froeant She was being a hostess and she sang, later on after dinner she sang about twelve songs-”Feelings,” and then that song from the war, you know, the oozy-doozy-bowsy-lowsy one Oh, what is it? ”Mares Eat Oats” Everybody said that once I you can't stop her, that she's always the last to leave, and it was true, she was going strong
Then cabbed to Mr Chohere Jean Michel was having a birthday party for this girl who'd talked hio Cortez and Cle actually We woke hiet this one
Got home and I turned on the Letter about everything And I thought, Gee, what a great na about everything And I thought, Gee, what a great naazine, Forbes Forbes They just naazine called Warhol (laughs) Warhol (laughs) No no, I don't love my name so much I alanted to No no, I don't love e it When I was little I was going to take ”Morningstar,” Andy Morningstar I thought it was so beautiful And I ca it for my career This was before the book, it When I was little I was going to take ”Morningstar,” Andy Morningstar I thought it was so beautiful And I ca it for star Marjorie Morningstar I just liked the name, it was my favorite
Friday, October 5, 1984 Jean Michel ca the back area now at 860 to collate the new prints The Details I hate them Like details of the Botticelli ”Venus” But people are loving these best It makes you wonder Like they loved the James Dean cover for the David Dalton book that I did They're buying it in prints
Sunday, October 7, 1984 It was a beautiful day Talked to Jean Michel and he wanted to go to work, so we planned to meet at 860 I went to church and then there were no cabs, so I wound up walking halfway to the office (cab 375) I let Jean Michel in downstairs He did a painting in the dark, which was great This was the day of Susan Blond's wedding to Roger Erickson, and the thing was at the Cafe Luxe and I didn't want to take Jean Michel ho up for a present, so we boththere Jean Michel is so difficult, you never knohat kind of ets really paranoid and says, ”You're just using etting paranoid and he'll do everything so nice to try to , either Like e got to Susan's he didn't like it, I don't know if it's because of the drugs or because he hates crowds or because he thinks it's boring And I tell him that as he becomes more and s (cab 10)
I er's mother and she looks and acts just like Susan Jonathan Roberts flew in from California and I asked him why he bothered I said, ”Just because you had a date once with Susan?”
Danny Fields was the best ave a little speech And Steve Rubell was there and he wasn't that friendly I mean, he was really friendly, but sometimes he's really really really friendly So he wasn't friendly enough
A wo about a table she bought froet her the table, and so she called his mother, and the mother said that Ronnie's disappeared I asked PH about it and she said it's serious, that nobody's heard fro mouth, if he were alive, he wouldve called someone by now
Monday, October 8, 1984 Picked up Jean Michel and he has people ringing his bell every fifteen seconds, it res like, ”Listen iven fun drawings to once when he was needing a place to stay sold the So Jean Michel's finding out how you have to be a business, how it all stops being just fun, and then you wonder, What is art? Does it really come out of you or is it a product? It's coot to say that Dr Rossi's kid who's just out of Yale wants to do videos and so I' him to talk to Vincent Dr Rossi's the doctor that saved my life in '68 when I was shot
Tuesday, October 9, 1984 I s for Sean Lennon's birthday and the painting was still wet-a little heart candy-box that said ”I love you”-and I also brought a ”paint brush” that instead of bristles had strips of red colored paper in a stack And a bracelet I'd made out of pennies PH picked me up and ent to the Dakota (cab 650) There were fans outside in honor of the day still on the ”vigil” Because the ninth is Sean and and John's birthday Inside Yoko's door everybody had taken their shoes off so there was a line of shoes I wouldn't take h, and I didn't want PH to, either, so that I wouldn't be alone PH said that when she went to the Royal Palace once in Hawaii that the tour guides gave you booties to put John's birthday Inside Yoko's door everybody had taken their shoes off so there was a line of shoes I wouldn't take h, and I didn't want PH to, either, so that I wouldn't be alone PH said that when she went to the Royal Palace once in Hawaii that the tour guides gave you booties to put over over your shoes and your shoes and that that would be a better way to keep the house clean, I think So then e heard a glass drop and break, that was our excuse-that we didn't want to be in our socks when there lass Yoko ran to call Sean and he cathe other half of the dollar I tore in half the last tiht for him and he went off to try to find the match to the half would be a better way to keep the house clean, I think So then e heard a glass drop and break, that was our excuse-that we didn't want to be in our socks when there lass Yoko ran to call Sean and he cathe other half of the dollar I tore in half the last tiht for him and he went off to try to find the ht Kenny Scharf as his date Walter Cronkite was there, and John Cage and Louise Nevelson and Lisa Robinson had Keith was there and he brought Kenny Scharf as his date Walter Cronkite was there, and John Cage and Louise Nevelson and Lisa Robinson
On purpose for fun I had spelled Sean's naraphed napkins forMichael Jackson-type gloves, but on both hands, that his friend little Max Leroy, Warner Leroy's son, had given hier He said he likes Prince, too, and he e, too, because later on his coe Sean and Keith hit it off Keith is very good playing with kids-he was playing really ith another baby that was there, too, co after her with a stuffed animal Sean sat between rand piano Sean was the one who had the idea that it should be a piano He has a piano in his bedroo ”For He's a Jolly Good Fellow,” and later Sean made a really nice speech and said that if his father were there we'd be singing 'Tor They're They're Jolly Good Jolly Good Fellows” Fellows”
After dinner Yoko and Sean and some of the people went over to the WNEW broadcast that they were originally going to do inside the building, but at the last minute the Dakota wouldn't let them But most of the people stayed behind We went into Sean's bedroo up the Apple cootten as a present, the Macintoshive , and then the kid looked up and said, ”Yeah, that was uy And he told avewith it It only comes in black and white now, but they'll make it soon in color And then Keith and Kenny used it Keith had already used it once toit for the first tiuy right there who'd helped invent it
Sean's bedroom had two mattresses on the floor and lots of Beatles pictures and the big Rupert S paper and presents all over the floor, and lots of robot toys on the shelves
After we left I was so blue because before I was Sean's best grownup friend and now I think Keith is They really hit it off He invited Keith to his party for kids the next day and I don't think I was invited and I'm hurt
Saturday, October 13, 1984 Got up early and it was nice out Jay's back with Kate Harrington and he's too happily o to work, too Benjamin's too happily o go to work So I went alone (6) The only person as called was Michael Walsh, the kid from Newport ants me to look at his work Worked till 8:00 all alone Went uptown (6) to work So I went alone (6) The only person as called was Michael Walsh, the kid from Newport ants me to look at his work Worked till 8:00 all alone Went uptown (6)
Cabbed to Mick and Jerry's for dinner on West 81st Street (cab 4) There were three butch bodyguards outside Jack Nicholson was there, and he's into Bouguereau now-he has all these Reuereaus
The baby wasn't there Jerry's sister Rosy was, and she had her two tits al out, which is so odd, because I don't knohy she would dress like that when she has this big butch sexy great husband And I talked to Wendy Stark and she had three pictures of her kid, so it looked like triplets Whoopi Goldberg cauy was there and Mike Nichols Tina Choas in the kitchen with the food, they'd done it And I approached Jack Nicholson about being in the Jackson Pollock story that PH and I are now thinking of buying the book rights to froman, and then Fred caman was another Crazy Matty, and so Jack said, ”Well I'll let you twoa suit that he'd had made in London that made him look like a box
Mick was drunk and really friendly, calad that I didn't bring Cornelia, because she'd be ”a threat” to Jerry I was surprised to see Whitney Tower there because Jerry always accused hiirls for Mick There was a whole other room with more stars in it
Monday, October 15, 1984 I had an appointment with Dr Linda Li I was fifteen minutes late and so I had to wait She told ic to potatoes, and I don't know if she's ic or if she smelled them, because I had had some And she told me not to eat them for a while, the white ones Left there (phone 2, newspapers 3)
After work I ith Jean Michel to finally check out of his hotel rooot there he decided it was too beautiful to leave
Tuesday, October 16, 1984 Jackie Curtis called and said that Alice Neel died I'd been uess she was old enough, though, in her eighties, I think It seems like I just saw her on the Johnny Carson show Jackie wants to take an ad in Interview Interview for a play he's opening, but how can we trust hi, but how can we trust him to pay?
Jean Michel, me, John sex, and Fab Five Freddy cabbed uptown to the Lyceu show (8) We were late and in the second row Whoopi was great, for one and a half hours just a blank stage but she held your interest She's really intelligent and everything She does a thing where she asks for quarters froive them back So when it was over and ent back to see her she said that she usually gives theiven her a dollar bill and that threw her off, and now she had about 4 and so she ive the money to a Catholic charity She really liked Jean Michel and I invited her to dinner, but she said she had cra
Wednesday, October 17, 1984 Our lawyer, Risa dickstein, was on the cover of the Post Post, because she's the lawyer for the Mayflower Madam, so that shows you what kind of a lae're so fortunate enough to have
Then Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, the fairy princess, caht-year-old fairy prince that she ot on the cover of every Gerazine because he's the billionaire who needed kids for heirs And now they have three kids And Betsy Bloodale was there, too
Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis started so and he went to Hollywood and met Marilyn Monroe that she came on to him and invited him over for dinner, but he said he wasn't into women then-he said this out loud They talk like that And the wife talks about boys, and then he talks about boys with big cocks It's very abstract So anyway, he said that he asked Marilyn Monroe who else was going to be there and she said a few naligee and he said, ”Where are the other people?” and she said, ”They all cancelled” So they had pink cha and she was standing there stark naked and he couldn'tso he said he just banged her on the knockers and said, ”See you later, toots” He said that he could've pretended and they could've just wrapped theain-he wasn't into women then She ood-looking Because he did also say that Pablo Picasso once saw hiive hiuy after his body This was on the beach But I don't know if his stories are true They probably are, but he res about me that I don't, soLike he says he once invited me out and that I said I was sick and that then he called ave him my home phone number
And then I walked them to their limos and Gloria wanted a cock drawn on her Interview Interview And Fred said this was our first society party in the new building But it would've been great in the ballroo up there And Fred had tables built on the roof! I don't knohy And his little dining room is nice, but it's not the same
Monday, October 22, 1984 Went to the new offices andsoto be 100,000 for a terrace on the roof, and I just said, ”We want just a plain old roof” And I laughed in his face when he told me it would be done by Christmas Oh sure I'll have to think about this
Rupert said that his apartned prints start showing up at auction But then the police called and said they'd gotten sos back
Worked till 7:30
Cabbed holued then went to dinner at the Sacklers' on Park Avenue and it was for Princess Michael of Kent And you were supposed to get there before she arrived but I was late It was dinner for only eight people And there was a lady stuck in the bathrooot out she accused Jill of hearing her and not doing anything, and Jill said she hadn't, but I mean, J heard her, so
Friday, October 26, 1984 Victor ca at ho a birthday party at Mr Chow's and invited me but Jean Michel and I didn't want to call him back because we kneanted to co on Worked till 7:50 (cab 6) John Lurie who starred in Stranger Than Paradise Stranger Than Paradise cane and that was a mistake Dropped hine and that was a mistake Dropped him at 12:30 (cab 7)
Saturday, October 27, 1984 Kate's picture was big in part one of the Truazine, and part two is about to co to say how she's actually the daughter of the old boyfriend, Jack O'Sheaif it's going to say how she's actually the daughter of the old boyfriend, Jack O'Shea
Monday, October 29, 1984 This was the day of the New York marathon, and it was hot and humid so the runners had a bad time One man froirl as pooping in her pants, she had diarrhea, and they tried to brush over it, but they said, ”She's tugging at her pants again”
Kenny Scharf called and invited me out for a ride in his Cadillac that he drove here frolasses andand the car looked like really so and the police were in back of them because they were just curious, like everybody else So we drove uptown to 90th Street and East River Drive to see the , like three blocks long He painted it white and sprayed little black and red figures, but it would've been better just silver It doesn't make the city look better, really
Halston called and invited me to dinner at his house where Jack and Anjelica and Steve Rubell and Alana were going to be, and Bianca, and I said sure and watched TV and then at 9:00 walked over there Ann Turkel asher boyfriend as if she were Jade or so about e, like over the hill, talking about ”settle down Alana's house in LA and saying it was so trashy and in the worst taste and she and Alana al person at the party was Peter Wolf and I told hiirls were so crazy about hiood Halston's hair is receding a little His house doesn't have the flair that it had when Victor lived there
Tuesday, October 30, 1984 Ferraro was on the news I was liking her a lot in the beginning, but now she's more like all the rest of them, like irl and didn't show up Bruno arrived and surprised us And his wife-Yoyo And they looked at the big paintings that Jean Michel has been doing silkscreens on, and they had a sour look, they said it ruined his ”intuitive primitivism” But he'd always Xeroxed Xeroxed before and nobody knew, it just looked like neings, and put on with that stuff Worked till 7:30 before and nobody knew, it just looked like neings, and put on with that stuff Worked till 7:30
Then there was a party for Van Johnson at Li already It was a party he was giving for Janet Leigh And he was such a ca to uess there weren't enough cute boys in there Then in the irl in it and blood all over and a guy like Tony Perkins in a grandmother's outfit And in the h in a blue sequined dress
Wednesday, October 31, 1984 Bruno just called-at the Christie's auction Jean Michel's painting went for 20,000 I think he's going to be the Big Black Painter It was one of his sort of big paintings I think Jean Michel's early stuff is sort of better, because then he was just painting, and now he has to think about stuff to paint to sell And how uess you can do theht a 700 mask for Halloween yesterday Mexican He just spends ive up the room at the Ritz Carlton and he doesn't take limos now, so that's an improvement But what he should do-and I've told his and store them so that he'll have the and then sells the theood prices are Rauschenberg's early pieces and anything by Jasper and Cy Two offRosenquist's prices are just uess I' out of 860 because Stephen Sprouse has rented the place
Glued ether, picked up Gael, and alked to Jams to meet Fred And this dinner was really horrible It was just , ”What can we do toit is?” But it didn't turn out that way Gael was explaining the printing costs And really, I should have been positive I know that you get h I did encourage soot out of that is that this week they're auctioning off a picture ofso I thought it was because I'dto diet because she's gotten really fat But she just rubsWe just don't communicate I don't know if she's stupid or if she just plays du her to do (dinner 140)
Then we talked about the covers, ould be the Mick, when the Health issue, when Mickey Rourke It was just a very frustrating dinner, nothing was acco It was allto a Halloween party Fred walked us both home
Thursday, Nove by with that rock person, Captain Beefheart And we didn't want hiht have heard what I'd been saying about his to copy
I had to leave early to see Christophe de Menil's first fashi+on show She's beconer (cab 8) Went to 79th and Fifth, the French consulate And the dresses were all just linen and the sleeves were like folded napkins, a 1914-style look Funny sleeves I don't knohy she would want to go into the dress business-it's not like she has a ”statement” to make Bianca was there and Steve Rubell told me that the reason she didn't want anyone at the birthday party she gave for Jade was because Jade's gotten chubby So I slipped out (cab 4)
Then Cornelia and I walked over to the Pierre for the ASPCA benefit thing I talked to CZ Guest and she said that Tru just a housewife and showed her that she a a ] O could do things And she said that she never told Tru there for five s And she said that she never told Tru there for fiveyou could think of about her fa, ”I lived with a drunk for years, so I know” every personal thing you could think of about her fa, ”I lived with a drunk for years, so I know”
Friday, Nove of Schnabel So went to it (cab 6) I was putting his painting down, being funny, and then I saas next to me but I don't think he heard me There were a lot of plates on the wall Schnabel said that he was a short-order cook at Mickey Ruskin's restaurant on University Place for a while Gee, poor Mickey nobody even otten The shoas interesting but I had to leave because Cornelia was picking me up for the horse show